Associate Professor Matthew Hobbs PhD

Deng, B., Waterman, I., & Hobbs, M. (2025). Te Papa Hauora Future of Health Disrupt Challenge: an authentic learning and assessment opportunity. Perspectives in Public Health, 145 (3), 138-140. http://doi.org/10.1177/17579139241302022

Paynter, J., McIntyre, P., Wiki, J., Nghiem, N., Liu, B., Marek, L., & Hobbs, M. (2025). Using nationwide data to examine the relative effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination against omicron amongst a population with low prior rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection: A cohort study. Vaccine: X, 24. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100624

Hobbs, M., Deng, B., Woodward, L., Marek, L., McLeod, G., Sturman, A., ... Boden, J. (2025). Childhood air pollution exposure is related to cognitive, educational and mental health outcomes in childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal birth cohort study. Environmental research, 274. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121148

Campbell, M., Hobbs, M., Mathias, K., & Eggleton, P. (2025). An observational study of intergenerational sex differences in mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand. Social Science & Medicine, 373. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117947

Birrell, J.M., Webster, A.C., Cross, N.B., Kindon, A., Hobbs, M., Hedley, J.A., ... De La Mata, N.L. (2025). In-Center Hemodialysis and Patient Travel Time in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Nationwide Geospatial and Data Linkage Study. Kidney International Reports, 10 (3). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.12.028

Puente-Sierra, M., Marek, L., Hobbs, M., & Chambers, T. (2025). A national assessment of the drinking water infrastructure deficit in New Zealand by territorial authority and sociodemographic characteristics. Australasian Journal of Water Resources. http://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2025.2481694

Eggleton, P., Boden, J., Harvet, A., Deng, B., McLeod, G., Campbell, M., & Hobbs, M. (2025). Investigating the long-term impact of experiencing a major disaster in mid-adulthood on body mass index and waist circumference: A prospective birth cohort study. SSM - Population Health, 30. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101781

Marek, L., Wiki, J., Mandic, S., Spence, J.C., Smith, M., García Bengoechea, E., ... Hobbs, M. (2025). Access to Healthy Built and Natural Environments and Physical Activity and Screen Time in New Zealand Adolescents: A Geospatial Cross‐Sectional Study. GeoHealth, 9 (1). http://doi.org/10.1029/2024gh001101

Deng, B., Boden, J., Ye, N., Morgenroth, J., Campbell, M., Eggleton, P., ... Hobbs, M. (2025). Life in green: Associations between greenspace availability and mental health over the lifecourse - A 40-year prospective birth cohort study. Environment international, 195, 109223. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.109223

Campbell, M., & Hobbs, M. (2024). Up in smoke. The unravelling of world-leading policy changes in Smokefree legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 48 (6). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100209

Deng, B., McLeod, G., Mackenbach, J.D., Dhakal, B., Eggleton, P., Marek, L., ... Hobbs, M. (2024). Typologies of Residential Mobility in Childhood and Associations with Sociodemographic Characteristics: a Prospective Birth Cohort Study in Aotearoa New Zealand. Child Indicators Research, 17 (6), 2691-2707. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-024-10175-w

Anderson, M.J., Conrow, L., Hobbs, M., Paulik, R., Blackett, P., & Logan, T. (2024). Distributional justice and climate risk assessment: An analysis of disparities within direct and indirect risk. Risk Analysis. http://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17664

Chang, M., & Hobbs, M. (2024). Location, location, location: understanding the geography of health policies in local spatial plans in England. Cities & Health, 1-9. http://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2408516

Hobbs, M., Puente-Sierra, M., Marek, L., Broadbent, J.M., & Chambers, T. (2024). Examining the Structural Inequities in the Quality of Nationwide Drinking Water Data in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Geospatial Cross-Sectional Study. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 17 (3), 951-962. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-024-09571-0

Hobbs, M., Marek, L., McLeod, G.F.H., Woodward, L.J., Sturman, A., Kingham, S., ... Boden, J. (2024). Exploring the feasibility of linking historical air pollution data to the Christchurch Health and Development study: A birth cohort study in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, 50. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2024.100675

Deng, B., McLeod, G.F.H., Boden, J., Sabel, C.E., Campbell, M., Eggleton, P., & Hobbs, M. (2024). The impact of area-level socioeconomic status in childhood on mental health in adolescence and adulthood: A prospective birth cohort study in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health & place, 88. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103246

Harvet, A., & Hobbs, M. (2024). Beyond the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Australia - New Zealand: Public health advocacy and the absence of health-conscious sport sponsorship. Public Health in Practice, 7. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100461

Waterman, I., Marek, L., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Mohammed, J., Epton, M., & Hobbs, M. (2024). Investigating the spatial and temporal variation of vape retailer provision in New Zealand: A cross-sectional and nationwide study. Social Science & Medicine, 349. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116848

Hetrick, S.E., Hobbs, M., Fortune, S., Marek, L., Wiki, J., Boden, J.M., ... Bowden, N. (2024). Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry, 58 (2), 152-161. http://doi.org/10.1177/00048674231203909

Hills, S.P., Hobbs, M., Brown, P., Tipton, M., & Barwood, M. (2024). Association between air temperature and unintentional drowning risk in the United Kingdom 2012-2019: A nationwide case-crossover study. Preventive medicine, 179. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107832

McLeod, G.F.H., Broadbent, J.M., Kinnersley, B., Insch, A., Lee, M., Schluter, P.J., ... Hobbs, M. (2023). Purchasing and use of non-fluoride and children’s toothpaste in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Dental Journal, 119 (4), 167-176. https://www.nzda.org.nz/about-us/new-zealand-dental-journal-articles/nzdj-2023

Schluter, P.J., Hobbs, M., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Kokaua, J., Singh, S., & Lee, M. (2023). The pattern of association between early childhood caries and body mass index in pre-school children within Aotearoa | New Zealand: a national cross-sectional study. Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 51 (6), 1109-1117. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12837

Hobbs, M., Marek, L., Young, A., Willing, E., Dawson, P., & McIntyre, P. (2023). Examining spatial variation for immunisation coverage in pregnant women: A nationwide and geospatial retrospective cohort study in Aotearoa New Zealand. Social science & medicine (1982), 335. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116228

Hobbs, M., McLeod, G.F.H., Mackenbach, J.D., Marek, L., Wiki, J., Deng, B., ... Horwood, L.J. (2023). Change in the food environment and measured adiposity in adulthood in the Christchurch Health and development birth cohort, Aotearoa, New Zealand: A birth cohort study. Health & place, 83. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103078

Hobbs, M., Hills, S., Marek, L., Tipton, M., & Barwood, M. (2023). Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study. Applied Geography, 158. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103006

Puente-Sierra, M., Chambers, T., Marek, L., Broadbent, J.M., O'Brien, B., & Hobbs, M. (2023). The development and validation of a nationwide dataset of water distribution zones in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-sectional geospatial study. Data in Brief, 49. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109349

Kingsnorth, A.P., Moltchanova, E., Thomas, J.J.C., Whelan, M.E., Orme, M.W., Esliger, D.W., & Hobbs, M. (2023). Interchangeability of Research and Commercial Wearable Device Data for Assessing Associations With Cardiometabolic Risk Markers. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 6 (3), 169-175. http://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2022-0050

Hobbs, M., Young, A., Turner, N., Dawson, P., Willing, E., McIntyre, P., & McIntosh, C.G. (2023). A new national health system: the opportunity to address data quality issues in maternal immunisation coverage. The New Zealand medical journal, 136 (1578), 94-99. http://doi.org/10.26635/6965.6089

Hobbs, M., Bowden, N., Marek, L., Wiki, J., Kokaua, J., Theodore, R., ... Milne, B. (2023). The environment a young person grows up in is associated with their mental health: A nationwide geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure, New Zealand. Social science & medicine (1982), 326. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115893

Thomas, C., Braund, R., Bowden, N., Hobbs, M., Kokaua, J., & Paterson, H. (2023). Disparities in utilisation of combined oral contraceptives in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-sectional whole-of-population study. The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology, 63 (3), 441-447. http://doi.org/10.1111/ajo.13672

Chambers, T., Hobbs, M., & Broadbent, J.M. (2023). An assessment of compliance with optimal fluoride levels for oral health benefit by New Zealand drinking water suppliers. Journal of public health dentistry, 83 (2), 217-221. http://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12548

Lee, J.J.M., Schluter, P.J., Hodgett, M., Deng, B., & Hobbs, M. (2023). Adolescents and oral health service utilization in Canterbury, New Zealand: A geospatial cross-sectional study. Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 51 (3), 388-398. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12858

Marek, L., Hills, S., Wiki, J., Campbell, M., & Hobbs, M. (2023). Towards a better understanding of residential mobility and the environments in which adults reside: A nationwide geospatial study from Aotearoa New Zealand. Habitat International, 133. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102762

Desjardins, M.R., Murray, E.T., Baranyi, G., Hobbs, M., & Curtis, S. (2023). Improving longitudinal research in geospatial health: An agenda. Health & place, 80. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102994

Logan, T.M., Hobbs, M., Conrow, L.C., Reid, N.L., Young, R.A., & Anderson, M.J. (2022). The x-minute city: Measuring the 10, 15, 20-minute city and an evaluation of its use for sustainable urban design. Cities, 131. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103924

Boden, J., Hetrick, S., Bowden, N., Fortune, S., Marek, L., Theodore, R., ... Hobbs, M. (2022). Empowering community control over alcohol availability as a suicide and self-harm prevention measure: Policy opportunity in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 29. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100631

Theodore, R., Bowden, N., Kokaua, J., Ruhe, T., Hobbs, M., Hetrick, S., ... Boden, J. (2022). Mental health inequities for Māori youth: a population-level study of mental health service data. The New Zealand medical journal, 135 (1567), 79-90. http://doi.org/10.26635/6965.5933

Christensen, A., Griffiths, C., Hobbs, M., Gorse, C., & Radley, D. (2022). Investigating where adolescents engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour: An exploratory study. PloS one, 17 (12). http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276934

Christensen, A., Radley, D., Hobbs, M., Gorse, C., & Griffiths, C. (2022). Investigating how researcher-defined buffers and self-drawn neighbourhoods capture adolescent availability to physical activity facilities and greenspaces: An exploratory study. Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, 43. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2022.100538

Hobbs, M., Stewart, T., Marek, L., Duncan, S., Campbell, M., & Kingham, S. (2022). Health-promoting and health-constraining environmental features and physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescence: a geospatial cross-sectional study. Health & place, 77, 102887. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102887

Mackenbach, J.D., Hobbs, M., & Pinho, M.G. (2022). Where do Dutch adults obtain their snack foods? Cross-sectional exploration of individuals' interactions with the food environment. Health & place, 75. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102802

Hobbs, M., Milfont, T.L., Marek, L., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C.G. (2022). The environment an adult resides within is associated with their health behaviours, and their mental and physical health outcomes: a nationwide geospatial study. Social science & medicine (1982), 301, 114801. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114801

Pointon, L., Howe, A.S., Hobbs, M., Paynter, J., Gauld, N., Turner, N., & Willing, E. (2022). Evidence of suboptimal maternal vaccination coverage in pregnant New Zealand women and increasing inequity over time: A nationwide retrospective cohort study. Vaccine, 40 (14), 2150-2160. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.079

Turnbull, S.M., Hobbs, M., Gray, L., Harvey, E.P., Scarrold, W.M.L., & O'Neale, D.R.J. (2022). Investigating the transmission risk of infectious disease outbreaks through the Aotearoa Co-incidence Network (ACN): a population-based study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 20, 100351. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100351

Hobbs, M., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Kingham, S., Wiki, J., Marek, L., Dionisio, M.R., ... Mackenbach, J.D. (2022). A city profile of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Cities, 121, 103481. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103481

Campbell, M., Marek, L., Wiki, J., Hobbs, M., Sabel, C.E., McCarthy, J., & Kingham, S. (2022). National movement patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: the unexplored role of neighbourhood deprivation. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 75 (9), 903-905. http://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-216108

Oldroyd, R.A., Hobbs, M., Campbell, M., Jenneson, V., Marek, L., Morris, M.A., ... Wilson, M. (2021). Progress Towards Using Linked Population-Based Data For Geohealth Research: Comparisons Of Aotearoa New Zealand And The United Kingdom. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 14 (4), 1025-1040. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-021-09381-8

Green, M.A., Hobbs, M., Ding, D., Widener, M., Murray, J., Reece, L., & Singleton, A. (2021). The Association between Fast Food Outlets and Overweight in Adolescents Is Confounded by Neighbourhood Deprivation: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18 (24). http://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413212

Campbell, J., Sutherland, J., Bucknall, D., O'Hara, L., Heywood, A., Hobbs, M., ... Gray, L. (2021). Equity in Vaccine Trials for Higher Weight People? A Rapid Review of Weight-Related Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for COVID-19 Clinical Trials. Vaccines, 9 (12). http://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9121466

Phillips, S.M., Summerbell, C., Hobbs, M., Hesketh, K.R., Saxena, S., Muir, C., & Hillier-Brown, F.C. (2021). A systematic review of the validity, reliability, and feasibility of measurement tools used to assess the physical activity and sedentary behaviour of pre-school aged children. The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 18 (1). http://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01132-9

Hills, S.P., Hobbs, M., Tipton, M.J., & Barwood, M.J. (2021). The water incident database (WAID) 2012 to 2019: a systematic evaluation of the documenting of UK drownings. BMC public health, 21 (1). http://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11827-0

Kingsnorth, A.P., Patience, M., Moltchanova, E., Esliger, D.W., Paine, N.J., & Hobbs, M. (2021). Changes in Device-Measured Physical Activity Patterns in U.K. Adults Related to the First COVID-19 Lockdown. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 4 (3), 247-256. http://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2021-0005

Marek, L., Hobbs, M., Wiki, J., McCarthy, J., Tomintz, M., Campbell, M., & Kingham, S. (2021). Spatial-temporal patterns of childhood immunization in New Zealand (2006-2017): an improving pattern but not for all? European journal of public health, 31 (3), 561-566. http://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa225

Campbell, M., Marek, L., & Hobbs, M. (2021). Reconsidering movement and exposure: Towards a more dynamic health geography. Geography Compass, 15 (6). http://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12566

Campbell, J., Hobbs, M., O'Hara, L., Ballantyne, A., Heywood, A., & Gray, L. (2021). Equity in vaccine trials for higher weight people? Protocol for a rapid review of inclusion and exclusion criteria for higher weight people in clinical trials for COVID-19. BMJ open, 11 (5). http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050114

Christensen, A., Griffiths, C., Hobbs, M., Gorse, C., & Radley, D. (2021). Accuracy of buffers and self-drawn neighbourhoods in representing adolescent GPS measured activity spaces: An exploratory study. Health & place, 69, 102569. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102569

Hobbs, M., Biddle, S.J.H., Kingsnorth, A.P., Marek, L., Tomintz, M., Wiki, J., ... Kingham, S. (2021). Investigating the Association Between Child Television Viewing and Measured Child Adiposity Outcomes in a Large Nationally Representative Sample of New Zealanders: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of physical activity & health, 18 (5), 524-532. http://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0192

Marek, L., Hobbs, M., Wiki, J., Kingham, S., & Campbell, M. (2021). The good, the bad, and the environment: developing an area-based measure of access to health-promoting and health-constraining environments in New Zealand. International journal of health geographics, 20 (16). http://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-021-00269-x

Hobbs, M., Kingham, S., Wiki, J., Marek, L., & Campbell, M. (2021). Unhealthy environments are associated with adverse mental health and psychological distress: Cross-sectional evidence from nationally representative data in New Zealand. Preventive medicine, 145, 106416. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106416

Wiki, J., Marek, L., Hobbs, M., Kingham, S., & Campbell, M. (2021). Understanding vulnerability to COVID-19 in New Zealand: a nationwide cross-sectional study. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51 (sup1), S179-S196. http://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2021.1900294

Hobbs, M. (2021). Physical activity: wider influences and approaches for promotion. Perspectives in public health, 141 (2), 66. http://doi.org/10.1177/1757913920985083

Hobbs, M., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., & Schluter, P.J. (2021). Ethnic differences in mortality and hospital admission in a New Zealand population with type 2 diabetes. The Lancet. Global health, 9 (2), e102-e103. http://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30445-9

Hobbs, M., Schoeppe, S., Duncan, M.J., Vandelanotte, C., Marek, L., Wiki, J., ... Kingham, S. (2021). Objectively measured waist circumference is most strongly associated in father-boy and mother-girl dyads in a large nationally representative sample of New Zealanders. International journal of obesity (2005), 45 (2), 438-448. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-020-00699-w

Hobbs, M., Moltchanova, E., Wicks, C., Pringle, A., Griffiths, C., Radley, D., & Zwolinsky, S. (2021). Investigating the environmental, behavioural, and sociodemographic determinants of attendance at a city-wide public health physical activity intervention: Longitudinal evidence over one year from 185,245 visits. Preventive medicine, 143, 106334. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106334

Daly-Smith, A., Hobbs, M., Morris, J.L., Defeyter, M.A., Resaland, G.K., & McKenna, J. (2021). Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity in Primary School Children: Inactive Lessons Are Dominated by Maths and English. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18 (3). http://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18030990

Hobbs, M., Mackenbach, J.D., Wiki, J., Marek, L., McLeod, G.F.H., & Boden, J.M. (2021). Investigating change in the food environment over 10 years in urban New Zealand: A longitudinal and nationwide geospatial study. Social science & medicine (1982), 269, 113522. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113522

Gray, L., Rushton, A., & Hobbs, M. (2020). "We only have the one": Mapping the prevalence of people with high body mass to aid regional emergency management planning in aotearoa New Zealand. International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR, 51, 101859. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101859

Marek, L., Hobbs, M., McCarthy, J., Wiki, J., Tomintz, M., Campbell, M., & Kingham, S. (2020). Investigating spatial variation and change (2006-2017) in childhood immunisation coverage in New Zealand. Social science & medicine (1982), 264, 113292. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113292

Schluter, P.J., Hobbs, M., Atkins, H., Mattingley, B., & Lee, M. (2020). Association Between Community Water Fluoridation and Severe Dental Caries Experience in 4-Year-Old New Zealand Children. JAMA pediatrics, 174 (10), 969-976. http://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.2201

Hobbs, M., Marek, L., Wiki, J., Campbell, M., Deng, B.Y., Sharpe, H., ... Kingham, S. (2020). Close proximity to alcohol outlets is associated with increased crime and hazardous drinking: Pooled nationally representative data from New Zealand. Health & place, 65, 102397. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102397

Marek, L., Wiki, J., Campbell, M., Kingham, S., Sabel, C., Tomintz, M., & Hobbs, M. (2020). Slipping under the radar: worsened health outcomes in semi-urban areas of New Zealand. The New Zealand medical journal, 133 (1519), 121-125.

Hobbs, M., Wade, A., Jones, P., Marek, L., Tomintz, M., Sharma, K., ... Kingham, S. (2020). Area-level deprivation, childhood dental ambulatory sensitive hospitalizations and community water fluoridation: evidence from New Zealand. International journal of epidemiology, 49 (3), 908-916. http://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa043

Egli, V., Hobbs, M., Carlson, J., Donnellan, N., Mackay, L., Exeter, D., ... Smith, M. (2020). Deprivation matters: understanding associations between neighbourhood deprivation, unhealthy food outlets, unhealthy dietary behaviours and child body size using structural equation modelling. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 74 (5), 460-466. http://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-213159

White, A., Hills, S.P., Hobbs, M., Cooke, C.B., Kilduff, L.P., Cook, C., ... Russell, M. (2020). The physical demands of professional soccer goalkeepers throughout a week-long competitive microcycle and transiently throughout match-play. Journal of sports sciences, 38 (8), 848-854. http://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2020.1736244

Hobbs, M., & Radley, D. (2020). Obesogenic environments and obesity: a comment on 'Are environmental area characteristics at birth associated with overweight and obesity in school-aged children? Findings from the SLOPE (Studying Lifecourse Obesity PrEdictors) population-based cohort in the south of England'. BMC medicine, 18 (1), 59. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01538-5

Hobbs, M. (2020). Author Q&A: Matthew Hobbs. British dental journal, 228 (5), 340. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-020-1398-9

Hobbs, M., Marek, L., Clarke, R., McCarthy, J., Tomintz, M., Wade, A., ... Kingham, S. (2020). Investigating the prevalence of non-fluoride toothpaste use in adults and children using nationally representative data from New Zealand: a cross-sectional study. British dental journal, 228 (4), 269-276. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-020-1304-5

Hills, S.P., Barrett, S., Hobbs, M., Barwood, M.J., Radcliffe, J.N., Cooke, C.B., & Russell, M. (2020). Modifying the pre-pitch entry practices of professional soccer substitutes may contribute towards improved movement-related performance indicators on match-day: A case study. PloS one, 15 (5), e0232611. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232611

Vogel, C., Zwolinsky, S., Griffiths, C., Hobbs, M., Henderson, E., & Wilkins, E. (2019). A Delphi study to build consensus on the definition and use of big data in obesity research. International journal of obesity (2005), 43 (12), 2573-2586. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0313-9

Hobbs, M., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Marek, L., Campbell, M., Tomintz, M., & Kingham, S. (2019). Reducing health inequity for Māori people in New Zealand. Lancet (London, England), 394 (10209), 1613-1614. http://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)30044-3

Hobbs, M., & Atlas, J. (2019). Environmental influences on behaviour and health: a call for creativity and radical shifts in thinking within contemporary research. The New Zealand medical journal, 132 (1505), 97-99.

Hobbs, M., Green, M.A., Wilkins, E., Lamb, K.E., McKenna, J., & Griffiths, C. (2019). Associations between food environment typologies and body mass index: Evidence from Yorkshire, England. Social science & medicine (1982), 239, 112528. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112528

Hobbs, M., Green, M., Roberts, K., Griffiths, C., & McKenna, J. (2019). Reconsidering the relationship between fast-food outlets, area-level deprivation, diet quality and body mass index: an exploratory structural equation modelling approach. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 73 (9), 861-866. http://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211798

Hobbs, M., & McKenna, J. (2019). In which population groups are food and physical activity environments related to obesity? Perspectives in public health, 139 (5), 222-223. http://doi.org/10.1177/1757913919865138

Hobbs, M., Duncan, M.J., Collins, P., Mckenna, J., Schoeppe, S., Rebar, A.L., ... Vandelanotte, C. (2019). Clusters of health behaviours in Queensland adults are associated with different socio-demographic characteristics. Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 41 (2), 268-277. http://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy043

Hobbs, M., Tomintz, M., McCarthy, J., Marek, L., Vannier, C., Campbell, M., & Kingham, S. (2019). Obesity risk in women of childbearing age in New Zealand: a nationally representative cross-sectional study. International journal of public health, 64 (4), 625-635. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-019-01239-8

Daly-Smith, A., Morris, J.L., Hobbs, M., & McKenna, J. (2019). Commentary on a recent article on the effects of the 'Daily Mile' on physical activity, fitness and body composition: addressing key limitations. BMC medicine, 17 (1), 96. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1335-4

Wilkins, E., Radley, D., Morris, M., Hobbs, M., Christensen, A., Marwa, W.L., ... Griffiths, C. (2019). A systematic review employing the GeoFERN framework to examine methods, reporting quality and associations between the retail food environment and obesity. Health & place, 57, 186-199. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.02.007

Hobbs, M., Griffiths, C., Green, M.A., Christensen, A., & McKenna, J. (2019). Examining longitudinal associations between the recreational physical activity environment, change in body mass index, and obesity by age in 8864 Yorkshire Health Study participants. Social science & medicine (1982), 227, 76-83. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.06.027

Hobbs, M., Griffiths, C., Green, M.A., Jordan, H., Saunders, J., Christensen, A., & McKenna, J. (2019). Fast-food outlet availability and obesity: Considering variation by age and methodological diversity in 22,889 Yorkshire Health Study participants. Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, 28, 43-53. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2018.11.001

Wade, A., Hobbs, M., & Green, M.A. (2019). Investigating the relationship between multimorbidity and dental attendance: a cross-sectional study of UK adults. British dental journal, 226 (2), 138-143. http://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2019.47

Saunders, J., & Hobbs, M. (2018). Behaviour change. Perspectives in public health, 138 (6), 290. http://doi.org/10.1177/1757913918801665

Hobbs, M., Griffiths, C., Green, M.A., Jordan, H., Saunders, J., & McKenna, J. (2018). Neighbourhood typologies and associations with body mass index and obesity: A cross-sectional study. Preventive medicine, 111, 351-357. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.11.024

Hobbs, M., Griffiths, C., Green, M.A., Jordan, H., Saunders, J., & McKenna, J. (2018). Associations between the combined physical activity environment, socioeconomic status, and obesity: a cross-sectional study. Perspectives in public health, 138 (3), 169-172. http://doi.org/10.1177/1757913917748353

Hobbs, M., Green, M.A., Griffiths, C., Jordan, H., Saunders, J., Grimmer, H., & McKenna, J. (2017). Access and quality of parks and associations with obesity: A cross-sectional study. SSM - population health, 3, 722-729. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.07.007

Hobbs, M., Daly-Smith, A., McKenna, J., Quarmby, T., & Morley, D. (2017). Reconsidering current objectives for physical activity within physical education. British Journal of Sports Medicine, bjsports-2016. http://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-097328

Hobbs, M., Green, M., Griffiths, C., Jordan, H., Saunders, J., & McKenna, J. (2017). How different data sources and definitions of neighbourhood influence the association between food outlet availability and body mass index: a cross-sectional study. Perspectives in public health, 137 (3), 158-161. http://doi.org/10.1177/1757913916650916

Hobbs, M., Pearson, N., Foster, P.J., & Biddle, S.J.H. (2015). Sedentary behaviour and diet across the lifespan: an updated systematic review. British journal of sports medicine, 49 (18), 1179-1188. http://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2014-093754

Hobbs, M., Daly-Smith, A., Morley, D., & McKenna, J. (2015). A case study objectively assessing female physical activity levels within the National Curriculum for Physical Education. European Physical Education Review, 21 (2), 149-161. http://doi.org/10.1177/1356336X14555296

Wilson, H.J., Dickinson, F., Griffiths, P.L., Bogin, B., Hobbs, M., & Varela-Silva, M.I. (2014). Maternal short stature does not predict their children's fatness indicators in a nutritional dual-burden sample of urban Mexican Maya. American journal of physical anthropology, 153 (4), 627-634. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22463

Book chapters

Marek, L., Greenwell, J., Hobbs, M., McCarthy, J., Wiki, J., Campbell, M., ... Tomintz, M. (2021). Combining large linked social service microdata and geospatial data to identify vulnerable populations in New Zealand. In Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning an Essential Companion. (pp. 52-63).

Jarrett, K., López-Ros, V., Siddall, A., Eloi, S., Hobbs, M., & Marek, L. (2020). Leadership in sport. In The Practice of Leadership in Higher Education. (pp. 150-165). Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9780367823849-1311

Hobbs, M., & Dofs, K. (2018). Spaced Out or Zoned In? An Exploratory Study of Spaces Enabling Autonomous Learning in Two New Zealand Tertiary Learning Institutions. In Space, Place and Autonomy in Language Learning. (pp. 201-218). Abingdon, England: Routledge

Stevinson, C., Hobbs, M., & Courneya, K.S. (2014). Physical Activity and Cancer. In Integrative Oncology. (pp. 349-372). Oxford University Press: http://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199329724.003.0011